SAC 2002
For the past fifteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been
a primary forum
for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and
application developers
from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2002 is
sponsored by the ACM Special
Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). SAC 2002 is presented in
cooperation with other special
interest groups. SAC 2002 will be hosted by the Universidad Carlos III De
Madrid, Spain, from March 10 - 14, 2002

Neuro-Fuzzy Application Track
Recently, however, a tide of new applications is being fostered by the
necessity of dealing with
imprecision and vagueness in the context of a new generation of complex
systems, such as
telecommunication networks, software systems, data processing systems and
the like.
A common feature of these new systems is the fact that traditional fuzzy
techniques
(e.g. rule-based systems) are becoming fully integrated with neural network
processing in the general
framework of a soft computing approach to give approximate solutions to
complex problems that proved
too difficult to attack with other techniques.

The Neuro-Fuzzy Applications Track, without neglecting traditional fuzzy
applications, will
focus on this new generation of neuro-fuzzy systems, both from the point of
view of the computer
scientist and (perhaps more importantly) from the point of view of the
expert of the involved
application field.

Paper submission
Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of soft
computing and
fuzzy applications development for the technical sessions. and demos of new
innovative systems.
Papers must be submitted to one of the Track Chairs in 3 copies. In order to
facilitate blind
review, submitted papers should carry the authors' names and affiliations on
a separate sheet.
Authors must follow the Symposium's general Submission Guidelines
(www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac02). For electronic submissions,
please contact the Track Chair in advance. All papers will be blindly
reviewed for originality a
nd accuracy.

Conference Proceedings and Journal Publication
Accepted papers in all categories will be published in SAC 2002 Proceedings.
Expanded versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in
the
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (SIGAPP ACR). A special section with the
best papers from
SAC 2002 Fuzzy Track is planned to appear on Springer's Soft Computing
international journal.